Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 279

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #279 for the week August 13 – 19, 2012, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Ubuntu App Showdown: let the community vote begin
• UDS-R Registration Now Open
• Welcome New Members
• Ubuntu Stats
• Ubuntu-mx request for help
• Time to Jam Again!
• Ubuntu Jam AT Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• New fastdowntime schedule
• Charming Hadoop
• Marco Ceppi: How’s Ask Ubuntu working out for you?
• Nicholas Skaggs: Quality Perceptions Survey Results
• Pasi Lallinaho: Working on the Xubuntu documentation rewrite
• Didier Roche: Quickly reboot: Q&A session wrap up!
• Fieldrunners, Spirits and BIT.TRIP BEAT debut on Ubuntu, in the Humble Android Bundle 3
• Unity 6.2 Arrives in Quantal
• We Interview Leann Ogasawara, Canonical Kernel Team Manager, Marathoner and Mother
• Unity 2D No Longer Installed By Default, Removed From The Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Repositories
• Why Ubuntu 12.04 is the best desktop experience the free software community has to offer.
• Say Hello To Unity’s Newest Feature: Previews
• In Other News
• Other Articles of Interest
• Featured Podcasts
• Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
• Monthly Team Reports: July 2012
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
• And much more!

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Elizabeth Krumbach
• John Kim
• Jasna Benčić
• Nathan Dyer
• Benjamin Kerensa
• Leon Marincowitz
• Cheri Francis
• Jose Antonio Rey
• Jim Connett
• Matt Rudge
• And many others

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